But as we want to empty our liver of fat should we be trying to stop liver dumps?
Personally I find intermitant fasting and taking a walk after dinner both reduce my fasting blood glucose and stops liver dumps.
Liver dumps - hmmm - are these mainly from stored fats?
I suspect that they may be from stored glycogen.
In which case you possibly need to clear the glycogen store out to encourage the liver to convert some fats.
Not always a massive fan of
https://www.livestrong.com/article/264767-how-is-excess-glucose-stored/ but it does say:
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Stored Glucose
Once glucose is inside the liver, glucose is phosphorylated into glucose-6-phosphate, or G6P. G6P is further metabolized into triglycerides, fatty acids, glycogen or energy. Glycogen is the form in which the body stores glucose.
The liver can only store about 100 g of glucose in the form of glycogen. The muscles also store glycogen. Muscles can store approximately 500 g of glycogen. Because of the limited storage areas, any carbohydrates that are consumed beyond the storage capacity are converted to and stored as fat. There is practically no limit on how many calories the body can store as fat.
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So, yes, it looks as though a liver dump is potentially a good thing as long as you then keep your liver glycogen store low for the rest of the day. This in turn prevents any stray carbohydrate being stored as fat.
If you can't keep your liver glycogen store low, then a small snack to stop it dumping may well be a good thing. The first aim is to keep BG levels down. The second aim is to improve the body's BG control.
Fasting BG is often the last thing to come under control during a successful diet, exercise, weight loss regime. So limiting a liver dump to stop running a high BG level for half a day or more might be a more sensible option.
Or to put it another way, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
